As a part of April’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month, this year’s Denim Day celebrated 25 years of impact. Since 1999, the Peace Over Violence campaign has sought to inspire survivors and change attitudes towards sexual assault victims. Now, as an international event, Denim Day is now the longest running sexual violence prevention education campaign in…
Students at the University of Wyoming are fundraising, swabbing for potential marrow and blood donors and raising awareness for the cause of treating and preventing certain types of cancers as part of the National Marrow Donor Program’s (NMDP) Be The Match organization on campus. Rallying around Junie, a young girl diagnosed with aplastic anemia who…
The Laramie Salamander Migration Initiative has begun its fourth annual salamander watch, wherein volunteers help Western Tiger Salamanders cross the road. On rainy nights in spring, the salamanders emerge from their burrows in backyards and migrate to Labonte park to breed in the pond. During this time, the salamanders must cross 9th Street, which results…
The Agricultural Community Resources for Everyday Sustainability (ACRES) student farm will not be in operation during the 2024 growing season. As it currently stands, the ACRES student farm will not be operating during the 2024 growing season due to faculty oversight. “We’ve lost two of our Horticulture people in the last year. We lost one…
The Wyoming Historical Society uploaded their second episode of “Women of Wyoming [WoW], Then & Now,” with guest Kylie McCormick, a Wyoming historian. McCormick shared her research surrounding the negative reputation of Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard, a woman historian and University of Wyoming educator in the late 1800’s. “Women of Wyoming, Then & Now,” is…
One of musical theater’s most well known performances, “Into The Woods” takes viewers on a journey through Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s revolutionary retelling of old fairy tales. It’s now been brought to life in the Buchanan Center’s Thrust Theatre. To the University of Wyoming students in the cast and behind the scenes, putting on…
*Editor’s Note: Many individuals working for or under or in association with the University of Wyoming did not operate in a work-capacity and instead exercised their right to Freedom of Speech as private citizens. Over 100 individuals joined the public gallery at the University of Wyoming Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday, March 21, 2024,…
Feb. 28, 2024, Young Americans for Liberty, a new libertarian student organization on campus, held a drug legalization fair to bring public awareness about perspectives regarding drug legalization. Four students gave out presentations and information throughout the event, including the legalization of marijuana, psychedelics and opioids. “So our organization is focused on trying to do…
On Saturday Feb. 17, nonprofit organization Family Promise, held their seventh annual fundraising event called BEE-lieve in Change Gala. Nearly every seat was sold out at the Alice Hardie Stevens Center reaching their goal to raise almost $50,000 for Family Promise, an all time record. Chaley Dimoff, the director at Family Promise and of the…
This year’s Lunar New Year will be celebrated by many international students and families through events being presented by Associated Students Interested in China (ASIC) and other international clubs at the university. The Lunar New Year began February 10 and is celebrated for weeks in most of Southeast Asia and throughout the Asian community. The…
“No day is the same,” said Chief Dan Johnson. “You have days where they can’t pay you enough to do what you just had to do and days you can’t believe they pay you to do this job.” The Laramie Fire Department is ready at any moment 24 hours a day to keep Laramie and…
Laramie held its third annual Adult Prom fundraiser, with over 200 attendees, to raise money against human trafficking. All the proceeds of the event went to the host, Albany Advertising Council on Trafficking, a non-profit that provides support to the local community and to trafficking survivors. While the event is for individuals 21 and older,…
